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140,000-year-old child’s skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced

140,000-year-old child’s skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced

The child’s skull has a mix of features that appear to align with both modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. (Image credit: Israel Hershkovitz/Tel Aviv University) One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed a skull that was found …

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